Disney Halts Famed 'I'm Going' Super Bowl Ads
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Who is going to Disney World after winning the Super Bowl on Feb. 6? Nobody, because after 19 years the Magic Kingdom has elected to halt the promotional series in which a star of the game proclaims he is headed for the popular Florida theme park. The absence of the promotion by family-oriented Disney comes as the NFL attempts to clean up the Super Bowl after Janet Jackson's breast-exposing ...
Disney Has A New Skinless Robot That Is So Human
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Disney Research has recently released footage of a new robot that has human-like characteristics. The robot has subtle head movements and some blinking patterns that look similar to how a human interacts. The robot has a sensor inside of its chest that notifies it when to move and how to move its eyes for contact with other humans, too, Gizmodo reports. The robot uses ...
Disney Has More In Store For Visitors
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As Disneyland puts away the 50th anniversary party hats from its 18-month celebration, Walt Disney Co. executives are faced with their next challenge: how to avoid a midlife crisis at the company's theme parks. Banking on the momentum of their packed theme parks, Disney executives this week said they planned to lure tourists back using advertising, prizes and new attractions. Gary Slade, editor ...
Disney Hikes Annual Pass Prices By Up To $50
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For the second time in less than a year, Disneyland Resort has hiked prices for annual park passes. Starting today, theme park-goers will pay between $30 and $50 more than they paid in early 2009 for the same annual passes that can be used at Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. The hikes range from 11 percent to 26 percent. The prices for annual passes depend on the number of ...
Disney Hikes Price Of Socal Ticket Deal
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Disney hiked the price of its annual two-day ticket deal for Southern California residents a promotion that begins Sunday (today). Southern California residents can pay $99 for two days at Disneyland Resort parks Disneyland and Disney California Adventure (The usual cost for a single-day, one-park pass is $76). In recent years, Disney sold two-for-one park tickets to Southern California ...
Disney History President Sends Turkeys To Disneyland
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Take a look at what happened this week in Disney history: Nov. 24, 1955: Mickey Mouse Club Circus, starring Jimmie Dodd and many of the original Mouseketeers, premieres in Fantasyland (it will become one of the shortest lived attractions at the Park, closing January 8, 1956). Nov. 24, 1955: "Christmas Show Parade" kicks off its first holiday season at the Park on Thanksgiving Day and runs daily ...
Disney History: Dixieland At Disneyland
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Take a look at what happened this week in Disney history: Sept. 26, 1955: The First Annual Horseless Carriage Day is held on Main Street, U.S.A. Oct. 1, 1960: Dixieland at Disneyland debuts on the Rivers of America in Frontierland. Six Dixieland bands draw 9,000 jazz fans to a musical procession of boats and rafts on the Rivers of America followed by concerts at locations throughout the park. ...
Disney Holiday Fireworks Parade Return Friday
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Crowds at the Disneyland Resort are expected to thicken as the popular holiday season, including special fireworks and a parade, return Friday. The resort's season runs through Jan. 2 with special entertainment, attraction makeovers and festive decorations. Disney crews have been installing decorations in the parks since Halloween. Earlier this week, the snow features were on Sleeping Beauty ...
Disney Honors 5 Millionth Grad Nite Guest
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A graduate from Fontana received a special surprise when he entered the gates of the Magic Kingdom late Thursday. Samuel Jacobo, a graduate of Summit High School, was tagged as Mr. 5 Million. Jacobo was deemed the five millionth guest to pass through the gates of Disneyland for a Grad Nite - an all-night tradition that began in 1961 as a safe place for grads from across Southern California to ...
Disney Imagineer Collin Campbell Passes Away, Leaves Legacy
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Disney Imagineer Collin Campbell passed away on Saturday, April 2, 2011. Campbell, an employee of WED Enterprises, the division of the Walt Disney Company directly responsible for creating the iconic Disney theme park attractions, was involved in many aspects of the design of Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and the international Disney theme parks. Campbell's distinctive paintings of the Jungle ...
Disney Imagineer Recalls Haunted Mansion Tricks Treats
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On Tuesday, scores of Disney fans will celebrate Halloween with a ride through the Haunted Mansion at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim. Carlsbad resident Roland "Rolly" Crump, 87, won't be among those rolling through the spooky attraction in pitch-black "doom buggies," but he will be there in true ghostly spirit. Crump is one of the last surviving Disney Imagineers whose designs and models ...
Disney Imagineer Story
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Martin A. "Marty" Sklar, a right-hand man of Walt Disney and central figure in the development and expansion of his company's theme parks around the world, has died. Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown confirmed Sklar's death for The Associated Press. He died Thursday at his Hollywood Hills home at age 83, a company statement says. No details were released on his cause of death. "Here you leave ...
Disney Imagineering Made A Significant Mistake On A Classic Disneyland Attraction
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Did you know Disney Imagineering made a huge mistake on a Disneyland opening day attraction? Blink, and you 'll miss it. Disneyland Resort has been a staple for family fun in America since the 1950s, welcoming millions of families each year, eager to experience Disney magic through breathtaking storytelling, immersive lands, timeless attractions, innovative new experiences, world-class ...
Disney Imagineers Brought Walt Disney Back To Life And I Still Can Not Figure Out Exactly How They Did It
Disneyland is in the middle of celebrating its 70th year, and amidst the nighttime spectaculars and MagicBand+, Disneyland will open what may be its most important tribute: ‘Walt Disney A Magical Life ' the latest attraction that will be housed right near the front of the park in the Opera House. And I just spent time at the attraction twice over. It starts with a 10-minute movie that tells ...
Disney Imagineers Seek To Inspire The Next Generation Of Theme Park Dreamers And Builders
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Dreaming up a roller coaster that wraps around a mountain or a theme park land set in a galaxy far, far away is a puzzle that can only be solved with a mix of creativity and technical know-how. “It becomes this problem-solving exercise of how do we do this?” Walt Disney Imagineering executive creative director John Larena said. “And then when we figure out how to do it, how do we keep it ...
Disney In talks To Buy Pixar
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting (Bloomberg, too) today that Disney is in serious talks with Pixar about acquiring the animation studio in a stock deal worth nearly US$7 billion. Most people have probably heard about the well publicized rift between the two companies over renewing Disney's distribution rights to Pixar films. Steve Jobs, the CEO and majority shareholder in Pixar, had decided not ...
Disney Indiana Jones Ride Whipped Into Shape
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The adventure ride was closed for three months for refurbishment. Disneyland's Indiana Jones Adventure will resume operation on Dec. 8 after a three-month refurbishment. Besides the popular inside ride, based on the "Indiana Jones" movies, no other Disneyland Resort attraction is scheduled for closures in December because of the heavy crowds coming for special holiday features and long school ...
Disney Investment In A Dream
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Adventure is the goal of master showman Walt Disney as he transforms 160 acres of [arm land on the outskirts of Anaheim into a spectacular showpiece of past, present, future, feet and fantasy -- to be known as Disneyland. Opening date is set for July 15. Adventures will include activities of Frontierland, one of the four major realms of Disneyland. America's frontiers of the 18th and -19th Centuries ...
Disney Is Apparently Making Flying Stunt Robots For Its Parks
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In a move straight out of Tomorrowland, Disney is about to use robots in a brand new way. While visiting Disney Theme Parks always includes more spectacles than our eyes can handle, the bi-coastal and worldwide parks are stepping up their game in a big way. For decades, Disney has been incorporating animatronic robots into various attractions, from the famed Hall of Presidents and franchise-inspiring ...
Disney Is Changing Their Least Interesting Star Wars Ride To Improve Experience
A big change is coming soon to Galaxy's Edge in Hollywood Studios and Disneyland Park! Since Disney originally announced the new storyline and mission coming to the Millennium Falcon ride, they have been gradually revealing more and more about this new experience. Now, as part of the most recent episode of ''We Call It Imagineering'' on YouTube, Disney has shared some more details about how ...
Disney Is Turning Club 33 Into A Movie
Welcome to the club. Disney is inviting moviegoers into Club 33, a feature film inspired by the private restaurant that has been nestled inside Disneyland's New Orleans Square since 1967. A prized invitation for Disney fans, the members-only dining club - named after its former entrance at 'ཝ Royal Street,'' near Walt Disney's iconic Pirates of the Caribbean attraction that inspired the ...
Disney Just Updated Its Pirates Of The Caribbean Ride. Here's What Changed
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We know a little more about why Disney decided to update its Pirates of the Caribbean rides. Visitors to the Pirates of the Caribbean rides at Disneyland and Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom have gone through the same experience for 50 years. Few people ever noticed a scene in which pirates auction off women to pirates to be their brides. Disney announced in June 2017 it wanted to change a ...
Disney Knotts Frequent Targets Of Lawsuits
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Darth Vader was shooing away a bird at Disneyland when he smacked a woman in the back according to the lawsuit she filed claiming such "severe injuries" as back pain, headaches and trouble sleeping. Scores of other visitors to Orange County's showcase theme parks have gone to court in recent years with accusations of dangerous mistakes, accidents large and small, and lots of slippery floors. A ...
Disney Know It All's
As a Disney "know it all" and contributing writer here at DLDHistory.com I have to admit there are times when I am quite annoyed when listening to another fan talk about material concerning the history of Walt, his Family and the Disney Theme parks. I often have examined (in my head) my rational for having such feelings and why I get so bothered about. They usually range from the following thoughts ...
Disney Landscape Artist Morgan 'Bill' Evans, 92
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Morgan "Bill" Evans, the landscape architect who planted a group of orange trees upside down so the gnarled roots would look like exotic jungle branches on Disneyland's Jungle Cruise ride, died Saturday in his native Santa Monica. He was 92. If you love the topiary, or animal-shaped plants, around It's a Small World, or the miniature plants dotting Storybook Land, or the luscious growth that renders ...
Disney Launches Site Selling Parks Merchandise
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Walt Disney Co on Tuesday launched a new website offering merchandise from its theme parks and resorts as the entertainment group seeks new revenue sources during a slump in business at Disneyland and other parks. Shoppers can go to http://www.disneystore.com/ to buy more than 100 top-selling products like customized Mickey Mouse ears or other items that were previously only available at the parks and ...
Disney Lays Off Workers In Its Facilities Division
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Disneyland has laid off an undisclosed number of supervisors and about 50 workers in the facilities division the past few weeks after a reorganization of the unit. Disneyland officials would not disclose numbers, and said the layoffs were partially a result of the decline in repair work done at this time of year. Many of the facilities workers let go were casual or part-time employees. ''It's not ...
Disney Legend Alice Davis Passes Away
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Alice Estes studied animation and costume design at Chouinard Art Institute, which trained countless Disney animators and artists and was one of the precursors of Walt and Roy Disney's California Institute of the Arts. It was at Chouinard where Alice met her future husband, Marc Davis - one of Disney's Nine Old Men and later one of the leading creators at what became Walt Disney Imagineering. ...
Disney Legend Bob Gurr The Man Behind The Motion
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Disneyland, “The happiest place on Earth,” is known for its attractions, which transport people of all ages into a world of imagination. Park guests can voyage under the sea or even slide down a snow-covered mountain. One man to thank for this is Bob Gurr. Gurr often quips, “If it moves on wheels at Disneyland, I probably designed it.” He is responsible for more than 200 motion projects ...
Disney Legend Marty Sklar Leaves His Post At Imagineering
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Signaling the end of an era at Walt Disney Co., Marty Sklar is stepping down as the principal creative executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, the company's theme park design and development arm. Sklar, 72, is one of the last remaining employees who once worked closely with the Burbank company's late co-founder, Walt Disney. In a memo to colleagues, Sklar said he was leaving his job to serve as ...
Disney Legends Die Within A Day Of Each Other
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They shared a stage at Disneyland five days a week for nearly three decades and died within a day of each other. Betty Taylor, who played Slue Foot Sue in Disney's long-running Golden Horseshoe Revue, passed away Saturday - one day after the death of Wally Boag, who played her character's sweetheart, Pecos Bill. The 91-year-old Taylor died at her home in Washington state, Disneyland announced on ...
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